The poem is divided into twelve books in imitation of Virgil's Aeneid and is composed in dactylic hexameter.

He was the author of numerous works, including: a Greek grammar in the form of question and answer, like the Erotemata of Manuel Moschopulus, with an appendix on the so-called " Political verse "; a treatise on syntax ; a biography of Aesop and a prose version of the fables ; scholia on certain Greek authors ; two hexameter poems, one a eulogy of Claudius Ptolemaeus — whose Geography was rediscovered by Planudes, who translated it into Latin — the other an account of the sudden change of an ox into a mouse ; a treatise on the method of calculating in use amongst the Indians ( ed.

Another descendant, Baron Vlaho Getaldić ( grandson of Katarina Gundulić ) introduced a hexameter treaty into Osman in 1865.

In the 1830s, the novella was translated into Russian dactylic hexameter verse by the Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

The poem is divided into 17 books and is composed in dactylic hexameter.

' Grey's system consisted in changing the last syllable of names into letters which represented figures according to an arbitrary table, and in stringing together the new formations in lines with a hexameter beat.

The three short syllables in reliquias will not fit into dactylic hexameter because of the dactyl's limit of two short syllables, so the first syllable is lengthened by adding another l. However, this pronunciation was often not written with double ll, and may have been the normal way of pronouncing a word starting in rel-rather than a poetic modification.

The traditional meter of Greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, was introduced into Latin literature by Ennius ( 239-169 BC ), virtually a contemporary of Livius, who substituted it for the jerky Saturnian meter in which Livius had been composing epic verses.

Perhaps his most staggering achievement is ἈΣΤΡΟΝΑΥΤΙΛΊΑ ( Astronautilia ) Hvězdoplavba, a 6575-line science fiction epic poem, an odyssey in classical Homeric Greek, with its parallel hexameter translation into Czech.

He was the first to introduce the hexameter into the Swedish language with his epic Hercules in 1658.

These factors caused the Latin hexameter to take on distinct Latin characteristics.

The earliest example of the use of hexameter in Latin poetry is that of the Annales of Ennius, which established the dactylic hexameter as the standard for later Latin epic.

Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic example of Latin hexameter:

In the following example of Ennius's early Latin hexameter composition, metrical weight (" ictus ") falls on the first and last syllables of certabant ; the ictus is therefore opposed to the natural stress on the second syllable when the word is pronouned.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

Today, the modern Latin poets who use the dactylic hexameter are generally as faithful to Virgil as Rome's Silver Age poets.

* Introduction to the dactylic hexameter for Latin verse.

It was the first Latin poem to adopt the dactylic hexameter metre used in Greek epic and didactic poetry, leading it to become the standard metre for these genres in Latin poetry.

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

* Hexametrica, a tutorial on Latin dactylic hexameter at Skidmore College

In dactylic hexameter of Classical Latin and Classical Greek, for example, each of the six feet making up the line was either a dactyl ( long-short-short ) or spondee ( long-long ), where a long syllable was literally one that took longer to pronounce than a short syllable: specifically, a syllable consisting of a long vowel or diphthong or followed by two consonants.

During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni, a hexameter epic, full of anachronisms ; he depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great.

Quintus Ennius is the poet who is generally credited with introducing the Greek hexameter in Latin, and dramatic meters seem to have been well on their way to domestic adoption in the works of his rough contemporary Plautus.

Caesurae feature prominently in Greek and Latin verse, especially in the heroic verse form, dactylic hexameter.

Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized.

The poem is written in dactylic hexameter, possibly inspired by Greek and Latin classics, including Homer, whose work Longfellow was reading at the time he was writing Evangeline.

The work, Geoffrey's only known poem, was written in Latin verse ( hexameter ).

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

The Greek script, adapted from a Phoenician syllabary around 800 BC, made possible the notation of the complex rhythms and vowel clusters that make up hexameter verse.

There are numerous examples from the 16th century and a few from the 17th ; the most prominent of these is Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion ( 1612 ) in couplets of iambic hexameter.

Different traditions and genres of poetry tend to use different meters, ranging from the Shakespearean iambic pentameter and the Homeric dactylic hexameter to the anapestic tetrameter used in many nursery rhymes.

The Eclogues ( from the Greek for " selections ") are a group of ten poems roughly modeled on the bucolic hexameter poetry (" pastoral poetry ") of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus.

At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

Theognis himself might be imitating others: each of the longer hexameter lines is loosely paraphrased in the shorter pentameter lines, as if he borrowed the longer lines from some unknown source ( s ) and added the shorter lines to create an elegiac version.

Most of the satires of Lucilius were written in hexameters, but, so far as an opinion can be formed from a number of unconnected fragments, he seems to have written the trochaic tetrameter with a smoothness, clearness and simplicity which he never attained in handling the hexameter.

They were in hexameter verse, and, from the way in which they are mentioned by the ancient writers, as well as from the few fragments of them which have survived, it is evident that they were admirable productions of their kind.

Mention may here be made of the fragments of two short hexameter poems in an Einsiedeln manuscript, obviously belonging to the time of Nero, which if not written by Calpurnius, were imitated from him.

The pediment has an inscription with a hexameter from the Carmen Paschale by the 5th century Christian poet Coelius Sedulius ( Book 1, line 357 ): " Iura sacerdotii Lucas tenet ore iuvenci "-" Luke holds the laws of priesthood in the mouth of bull ".

On retiring from court, Zhukovsky devoted his remaining years to hexameter translations of Eastern poetry, including long excerpts from the Persian epic Shahnameh.